I feel kindof cheated. Within hours of noticing this post I told a friend the great news about the new Rush album. I sent him the links at the top of this thread and within a day he called me to say he couldn't buy it anywhere (ahem, May 14th it's 'allegedly' available) but had downloaded it from one of the file-sharing networks. He's not a warez'er, just an unstoppable Rush fan.

I've held off posting this since I don't want to 'encourage' others to do the same thing. My friend (absolutely no doubt) will buy this album once it's listed in the UK, I will too but that's a 'given' as far as I'm concerned;
How could this material have 'leaked' given the recent (and rightly so) ass kicking the warez community has had over recent months? If I could pre-order on amazon.co.uk I'd feel so much happier about the next paragraph:

Should I (morally) be cast into the black hole of Cygnus X-1 for temporarily copying my friend's .mp3's until I can buy & rip a retail CD?